QPR vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Rudy65]

We did everything but score, they did nothing but score.

Really. How many clear cut chances did we create?  Their keeper had nothing to do

[sickbeggar]

Not too downhearted - i said it would be rocky in the pre-match thread upto January. I'd call that a transitional performance. The players that can are adapting to his style and those that can't, aren't, or haven't been signed yet. We've played far far worse than that and got a result and a team that gets 68% possession away from home, well if we can sort out the attack then you are gonna win more than you lose. We need to hold our nerve and see what smith can do once he discards those he doesn't want, and gets in a few players he wants. Keep the faith.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

After a few years of decline we have settled at the level of being a fairly poor boring team who in terms the english football landscape have little relevance or consequence making up the numbers in the championship. 

[Toronto Villa]

To paraphrase Yoda - The players have to unlearn what they have learned. So many very bad habits that need to be eradicated.

[ChicagoLion]

I would rather watch that than Bruceball

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

We are a pit of misery.

Time to start up that thread again. Moderators...!

[manic-road]

That performance deserved a win, Abraham scores the sitter at the beginning of the 2nd half and I think we go on and win.
You just have to take those chances.

Absolutely TA should have busied that chance.

[BoVillan esq]

16th, in the paupers fkn league, please Deano sort it out.

Just listening to the pundits on Talksport2 McCarthy and Co, saying it could be that Dean isn't used to having a squad of players like Villa, then used the word 'pedigree' in terms of player standing, and it will take time for him to understand this, wtf.....

[PaulWinch again]

Fuck off Villa, that second half was fucking atrocious. Not a single player gets any credit in that half.

Chester - embarrassingly poor.

I disagree.  Jack tried his heart out and McGinn wasn’t too bad.  Tammy has a mare tonight though.

Jack is trying too hard to do everything. It’s admirable from an attitude point of view, but him dropping deeper and deeper ruins our shape and our threat disappears.

[Uknowthescore]

 play some of the under 23s who want it get rid of Hutton Taylor whelan and all the other old ****** and start from scratch. Write this season off and plan for next season now.

[jwarry]

I really don’t know what to say. The Bruce legacy is clearly going to take some time to overcome, but fuck me these are professional footballers. And as Dean says they have to take responsibility. What has been flushed out is the ‘bang average never deserve to play for Aston Villa’ players like Taylor and bizarrely you can see why Bruce played people out of position

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Unbelievably shit from 30 yards out considering our so called’ abundance of riches’ up front.

Absolutely! Not one of them looks like they look like they're going to score. Time to mix it up. Maybe move Abraham out wide and Kodja in the middle. Bolaise? Fuck me. How much did Everton pay for him, £3m?

Whelan improved us. Jack can't play in a system and please never let him take a free kick or corner again. Massive spaces in the Rangers half where he should have been. Chester seems to have lost it. Elmo out wide hopefully we'll never see again.

All that said, I didn't expect us to get anything today but will go unbeaten in November. Smith has lots of work to do but he now has some time to address the problems of inheriting a team where it's alien to keep the ball.

[brian green]

Stupid lack of concentration all over the pitch. Chester needs to have his arse kicked and the captain's armband given to John McGinn.  Bolaise, Kodjia and Abraham are all look-at-me players.  Flashy, over complicated, underachievers.

[villadelph]

We are a pit of misery.

For ten years now.. wake me up when it's over.

[PaulWinch again]

Jack has got to stop coming deep to get the ball, I know why he’s doing it, but he’s just got to trust those further down the pitch to give him the ball. The shape disappears when he drops back.

we need 3 of him to be fair , but he comes far too deep.  anyone think Whelan plays like he has the bad back of aa little old man , we have to have more legs in midfield

I was staggered to find out Whelan is younger than me. He’s hopeless, it’s vital that Thor gets fit.